JLam👩🏻‍🎨

There’s a reason why John Singer Sargent works large, these tiny facial features are hard 😆 Note to self, life sized or gtfo… also fine grained canvas and not my landscape roll 🫠

Maybe 60%?

Whenever people graduate from traditional atelier they do a self portrait, so here’s mine 🙂 (soon, on my own terms, in my own time, finding myself)

#WorkInProgress #oilpainting #selfportrait #portrait #representationalart #fineart

The thing about painting, often time with value compression, you don’t make something look darker by adding more dark colors, you make its surrounding lighter. But when to do what is what makes a master, a master…🥲

#WorkInProgress #oilpainting #selfportrait #portrait #representationalart #fineart

Some progress since I’ve been back. Thankfully there are spots in my art studio with similar lighting and as I’ve been trying / planning to do a self portrait from life I already had a set up.

There’s at least 2 weeks left of work on this but coming along slowly 😝

#oilPainting #selfPortrait #art

My favorite part is actually the palette it’s such a weird shape and I was surprise i got it right(?) fairly painlessly. I made the mistake of opting for a small portrait here… brushes are not small enuf for them eyelids rn 🥲 #WorkInProgress #oilpainting #selfportrait #portrait #fineart

My bff Lyly lives in Atlanta and was able to take these pics for me at the exhibit opening 🥰

My biological family may not want me but thankful I have good friends and my art 🙂

Yay I’m on the poster too 😀 #oilPainting #fineart #artExhibit

Indeeddd, tho also weird how these things work… why couldn’t it be something easier.. like mindlessly watching TV or something 😆

Ahh oil painting, my one true love 🥲

Been meaning to do a self portrait, i guess these things just hit you when it’s least expected.

I suppose oil painting is really my lifeline and passion..

#selfportrait #oilpainting #WorkInProgress #portraitpainting

“It is perhaps important to have a beloved pet as early in life as possible - so to understand and experience the inevitable grief of loss early on. It only gets exponentially worse as life goes on.”

Interestingly enough, this painting was accepted into a juried exhibit in Atlanta and at the same time also an online exhibit with the AAPL indeed i should paint more….

#oilpainting #fineart #artexhibit

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This small study was originally for a larger painting for my grandma. However the problem with painting from photos is that there’s just not enough visual information as from life. Should I ask her to sit for me for a portrait?

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Having a case of artist block, taking pictures of my framed babies for encouragement 🥲

I love physical art

#oilPainting #portraitPainting #stillLife #portrait #fineart #classicalRealism #academicMethod #representationalArt #art #painting

Extricating oneself from this toxic soup is excruciating and time consuming, but alas - I just want to live - a life of my own.

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The healing continues.

Lastly - the gaslighting. It’s an awful toll on the psyche to both see this happening and at the same time can’t allow yourself to believe this is actually happening. It’s literally unbelievable anyone can be this sick, i must be making it up!

Turns out it’s all true.

imaging realizing that the person that (according to others) is suppose to care and support you the most actually
- active want you to fail so they feel better about themselves
- hate you for doing anything well
- actually hoping your life sucks so they can throw you crumbs and you’d be grateful

One of the weirdest things about healing as a child of a narcissistic parent is coming to terms with, and actually having to believe that they are indeed as awful, if not more awful than you’ve ever allowed yourself to believe them to be…

ADHD be like ok i’m done mixing a portrait palette.

Brain: “actually I only want to paint stilllife now”

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#actuallyADHD #artist #painter

Peak innovation is not some BS
called "Al". It's actually Japanese
stationaries: Mono eraser, this oil
based pen for signature,
legendary, innovating down to the
details.. For Real.

Also, check out my nice portrait painting 😜

#portrait #fineart #painting #oilPainting

China's Cultural Revolution: portraits of accuser and accused It was a time when pupil turned on teacher, when friend turned on friend… Now artist Xu Weixin has painted both victim and perpetrator. Tania Branigan reports

In other happier news:

Just got into a juried exhibit in Atlanta for an Asian American Artist exhibit 🥳.

WeiXin Xu was the jury of acceptance for this show surprisingly 😱

His work is near and dear to my heart tbh, barely a generation removed, I hear my family occasionally mention those times…

😂😂😂😂😂

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Very much appreciate you taking time to critique this! Definitely helpful to get a second opinion. Yeah the tree is my favorite part and the water, the upper right quadrant is driving me nuts and i’m trying to fix it - perhaps what you term as “that little extra thing that pops” 👩🏻‍🎨

Critique mode best mode. I think they are all fair points, any change in opinion with a higher res?

Thanks for the feedback! It’s so interesting/ surprising to me how the preferences are all over the map. Curious as to what do you not like about 7?

Picking up italian again on Duolingo again after 4 years, starts naming paintings in Italian 🤪 @duolingoitaly.bsky.social

Ooo that’s super cool! Any website or such I can follow along? Would love to find more locations for plein air

Thanks Ann! Those were my favorites too 🥳 also 7 but no one seems to pick 7 lolll

Thank you! What do you like about 5? I’m always surprised when people pick that one..

Aww thank you ☺️ what do you like about 3?

This me 🍷